The original Partin tables were developed by Alan Partin, MD, PhD (see right) and colleagues at the Brady Urological Institute at Johns Hopkins in 1993 based on the thousands of “nerve-sparing” radical retropubic postatectomies carried out by Patrick Walsh. At various times since then, the tables have been upgraded to offer a tool for prostate cancer patients (and their doctors) that can be used to estimate their potential pathological stage (post-surgery) based on their clinical stage, PSA, and Gleason score (pre-surgery).
The currently available Partin tables are based on data from 5,730 patients treated between 2000-2005, using preoperative PSA, clinical stage, and Gleason score to estimate the probability of various possible pathologic stages at the time of radical prostatectomy.
Full details about the derivation of the Partin tables, together with a “plug and play” calculator are provided on the Johns Hopkins web site. If you want to use the calculator, all you need to do is enter your clinical stage, your PSA level, and your Gleason score. Alternatively you can look at the data in the full tables provided.
The Partin tables can be used in conjunction with the Kattan nomograms and the Han tables to get a very good idea of the probabilities of certain types of outcome after surgery compared to one’s available diagnostic information available before surgery.
